Tim Worstall

And now someone has actually reached it properly: This thoughtful re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that potential output grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second World [...]

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Usual Guardianista nonsense, to which I respond thusly: Others say it is too costly to abandon the burning of fossil fuels even if this does dump billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. They say we should just put up with those spreading deserts and flooded coastlines – a notion of staggering immorality, [...]

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Shareholders’ rights to do what they want with their shares to maximise their immediate value is more stark than anywhere else and directors’ responsibilities are only to serve the interests of these madly unconstrained shareholders. Well, yes, the shares, the company, they are their property, after all. As long as you’re not actively damaging another [...]

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So Will Hutton’s leading the Ownership Commission. They’ll produce an “authoritative” report on how we all might do better. The Oxford Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business, at Kellogg College Oxford University will host the Commission on Ownership and the secretariat will be facilitated through Mutuo. D’ye think they’ll pre-judge the issue much? Might be [...]

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Via, this complete gorgeousness. Second, you seem to think that we might censor a student’s thesis, which is lawful and already in the public domain, simply because a powerful interest finds it inconvenient. This shows a deep misconception of what universities are and how we work. Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and [...]

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* And do read the Adam Smith in the comments, making much the same point.

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see more Very Demotivational

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A Surrey police spokeswoman confirmed that Cox from East Grinstead, West Sussex, was charged on December 17 with three counts of administering poison with intent to annoy. Eh?

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From the soon to become less Tiny Tim as he gets his belly around the feast. Some hae meat and cannae eat Some would eat that want it But we hae meat and we can eat Sae let the Lord be thankit

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[Population] growth tends to be stronger where taxes are lower. Seven of the nine states that do not levy an income tax grew faster than the national average [over the past 10 years]. The other two, South Dakota and New Hampshire, had the fastest growth in their regions, the Midwest and New England.  Altogether, 35 [...]

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I’m often rather preplexed by the unthinking hatred of the US displayed by so many lefties here in the UK. No, not just the (rather too common) idiocies perpetrated by the government of the place, but a visceral hatred of everything American, from Mickey D’s through Hollywood to fat people and even, in the hilarious [...]

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Er, no, this isn’t just about you. The MP for Hammersmith had used free Commons stationery to organise a Labour rally in January, falling foul of rules which forbid the use of prepaid envelopes and free headed notepaper for political campaigning. “The file is two inches thick. I don’t have any criticism of the commissioner, [...]

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Tommy Sheridan, the former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, was facing a lengthy jail sentence last night after being convicted of perjury at the end of a 12-week trial. Cue protests that he wuz robbed by the bastard capitalists…. I have to admit that I’ve no problem with a politician that enjoys group sex [...]

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Fun for all the family! Unfortunately, when I used the phrase I called John Prescott I found that it had far too many entries to be a Googlewhack.

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Ritchie that is. Here’s one of today’s bits: Now I know we have to view things in the round, but let’s not put too fine a point on it and say our economy remains in profound difficulties, largely as a result of government policy. Growth is stumbling at best, unemployment is up and clearly heading [...]

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Story here.

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Complaining about how men (or rather a man) is teaching everyone to cook the wrong way. Yes, that Julie Bindel.

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Some people. Complaining that halls of residence are being built for students in London. When I were a student in London we were all screaming that more such halls should be built, for you’d only be able to live in hall for one of your three years and even then you’d be sharing a bedroom. [...]

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A fossilised little finger discovered in a cave in the mountains of southern Siberia belonged to a young girl from an unknown group of archaic humans, scientists say. The missing human relatives are thought to have inhabited much of Asia as recently as 30,000 years ago, and so shared the land with early modern humans [...]

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